Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Mr. Show, "If You're Going to Write a Comedy Scene, You're Going to Have Some Rat Feces in There," (1996)

In this episode of the Bob Odenkirk/David Cross sketch comedy show, David Cross plays "Grass Valley" Greg, a Silicon Valley caricature who invented the delete key. Clearly a loser, his company is a place "Where ideas can hang out, and do whatever!" and there are frequent Tofutti breaks. To reinforce how much of a loser Greg is, he is shown riding a recumbent bicycle to work. The reader who reminded me of this example of The Law of Bicycles in Popular Culture points out that, even among bicyclists, recumbent bicyclists are regarded as perverts and losers.